In the first paragraph, explain how Jericho Brown invented the duplex? Explain what is it and how is the duplex related to the blues?
Using the following link for the first paragraph:
https://www.pbs.org/theblues/classroom/essays12bar.html
2. In an interview with Paul Nelson at Global Voices Radio, Wanda Coleman was asked how she would give the assignment to write an American Sonnet. Here’s her answer:
“First I would explain my process. Then I would invite my students to try it, overlaying their specific 1) issues (what the sonnet is about) 2) rhythms (places and devices often have them) 3) tones (shadings of attitude) 4) musical taste/preference (rock, classical, blues, etc.)–how to develop the minimal language to simultaneously encapsulate and signal each.“
Analyze one of Terrance Hayes’s American sonnets using the four elements Coleman identifies in the interview. What are the issues in the poem? Rhythm? Tone? What musical style is evoked in the poem?
Using the following link for the second paragraph:
https://www.globalvoicesradio.org/American_Sonnets_Wanda_interview.html
In a final paragraph, how does Nezhukumatatil’s “Summer Haibun” evoke aware, a feature of the haibun that she describes in the essay as “the quality of certain objects to evoke longing, sadness, or immediate sympathy”?
Using the following link for the third paragraph:
https://poets.org/poem/summer-haibun